USN-1045-1: FUSE vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1045-1

19th January, 2011

fuse vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Software description

fuse

Details

It was discovered that FUSE could be tricked into incorrectly updating themtab file when mounting filesystems. A local attacker, with access to useFUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version: